shading

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I'd do the board with whites for the outer ones and HST white/lighter colour at the edges of the shadow then have darker squares in the shaded area (whole not partials) and i'd do the cylinder in 3 shades of fabric.

Jessamy

You could use permanent fabric markers too to do the shading. They work quite well - I did a bit of shading on a little bird wallhanging a while back, like feather lines and underbelly - just a bit, and it had a great effect.

Sharon (N.B.)

You seem to have 3 or 4 levels of colour. You can sometimes find fabric prepared in gradations like that (I found some at a show once or twice). It has to be someone who dyes their own fabric and makes dilutions of the same dye without adding or taking away any other colour at all (no black or white eg).

If it were just two levels, you might be able to get away with using the 'wrong' side of the fabric - provided it was one of those where the colour came through - not just printed on the top. But, I don't think you can do that here.

Your best bet, I think, is to look up 'translucency' and see what you get from that. . In message , Hanne Gottliebsen writes

I'll bet you can, Hanne. The experiment will take some testing. Just off the top of my head, for the cylinder base, begin with a light gray. Color - with permanent felt tip marker or fabric paint - the darkest side just as black as you can get it. As you get to the center, bleed the black with water or whatever medium and don't touch the lightest side. I recently saw some flower petals shaded with colored pencils; not something I know anything about but the results were quite striking. You may have to try several methods but I'm sure you 'can'. Yes. And it's going to be wonderful. I can hardly wait to hear about your tests and yes, thread-painting could be the best bet. Polly

Perhaps you could use crayons or fabric markers to darken the fabrics in the shadows.

Some really good suggestions here and in other posts. I should have read them all before answering! More coffee!

If this is to be decorative, not "used" how about layers of a sheer material? More layers=more shading?

Lizzy

Hanne, I did a search for ombre fabric on quiltshops.com - the following is just one link that came up with a gorgeous new fabric line from McKenna Ryan.

Huh, I thought abut something like this, but being impatient with nowhere to buy this kind of stuff locally (!) forgot about it. But I actually have several fabrics which are not like this, but still have various shades on the same fabric.

I think I might leave my blues alone for a while and go look at those all one colour but different shades fabrics instead.

Thanks! Hanne in London

I was thinking I have enough different blues to do this (chance is good that I can get the right shades out of what I have).

I might try to do a little mock up.

Hanne in London

I might try this - I do have a _lot_ of pigma pens in all colours from when I did an on the day wedding sig quilt.

Thanks! Hanne in London

Oh, I do like this idea too - and sheer material I could easily pick up in town.

Thanks for the suggestion! Hanne in London

OK, this is what I'm going to do:

(1) try various fabrics in my stash for values (2) try shading with pigma pens (since they are what I have) (3) try using some hsts (4) maybe try some sheers if I'm not happy with my other options

(4) is at the bottom only because it takes a trip into town :-)

Thanks all!

Hanne in London

Somebody's already suggested permanent markers. An alternative would be silk gauze overlays. Add more layers for darker shades. Of course, it only works if you can actually find something like a medium-gray gauze. But the effect is very like applying a glaze over oil paintings. Roberta in D

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How about using the Tsukinekko (sp?) pens? I used some when I made this landscape quilt: . They worked great! :)

You might also look at the shading that's done on Baltimore quilts. They use tiny black ink dots to do shading.

How about crayon?

Pati, > KJ wrote:

you forgot (5) make lots of photo's of your experiments to find the right way

Jessamy

Years ago I was taken with a quilt that had many shades and tints and a HUGE variety of shaded fabrics, this was long before Artsy fabric was out there, she took the same fabrics and toned them down by tea dyeing for various lenths of time.... Mauvice in central WI.